John Kerry Continued Global Fooling

Even though it's now well known that man-made global warming is an elaborate hoax, Sen. John Kerry is still a believer:

Cap and trade may be dead, but Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry recently told an audience he intends to push legislation in the 112th Congress that will have a similar effect on the nation’s carbon emissions.

Kerry made his comments before a Chinese delegation, led by former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa, while speaking at the liberal Center for American Progress earlier this month.

“In this next Congress, we will have a major debate over energy policy in the United States,” Kerry said. “We will, even though we may not have a cap and trade mechanism,…have very significant measures introduced that will move us toward energy efficiency.”

The senator hopes to press for the conversion of the nation’s trucks to natural gas, the inclusion of green building standards in construction codes, and a nationwide renewable energy standard, among other ideas.

“I think even though we may not get [cap and trade], we can get in the next 10 years an almost equivalent reduction of emissions as if we had put that trading system in place, provided we do the right things with this legislation,” Kerry said.

With 56 Republicans in the new Senate it's unlikely that Kerry will be able to get his global warming pipe dreams enacted into law, and he knows it.  But you don't get invited to these liberal non-thinking tanks if you admit your party has been neutered.